From Joseph Major, Alexiad
Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
“The Hildebrand Rarity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
In Memory of Digger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Joy of High Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Six Degrees of Cleopatra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Worldcon News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Book Reviews
JTM Barden, Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Barden, Shades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Barden, Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Turtledove, Salamis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Macintyre, Agent Sonya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
JTM Viesturs/Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TV Reviews
TW Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TW The Queen’s Gambit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Richard A. Dengrove, Tom Feller, Robert S. Kennedy, Timothy
Lane, Lloyd Penney, AL du Pisani, George W. Price, John Purcell,
Darrell Schweitzer, Taras Wolansky
Comments are by JTM or LTM
Trivia: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Art:
Sheryl Birkhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Alexis A. Gilliland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Trinlay Khadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Marc Schirmeister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
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Table of Contents:
– Updates on Moon and other space exploration.
– SF great Ben Bova passes.
– Super-short review of a non-SF book “Deception Point” by Dan Brown
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites.
Sent to us via National Fantasy Fan Federation, 2 issues of Mount Void.
Speed (comments by Mark R. Leeper)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) (film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper)
BEYOND THE VISIBLE–HILMA AF KLINT (film review by Evelyn C. Leeper)
The Utah Monolith (Possibly) Explained (and Other Comments)
(comments by Evelyn C. Leeper and letters of comment by Joy Beeson,
Keith F. Lynch, Gary McGath, and Dorothy J. Heydt)
Edward Gibbon and China (letter of comment by Joseph T. Major)
This Week’s Reading (THE GREAT KOSHER MEAT WAR OF 1902)
(book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week
Alan Dean Foster and STAR WARS (comments by Mark R. Leeper)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (letter of comment by Gary McGath):
This Week’s Reading (science fiction of Rudyard Kipling)
(book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week
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